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Tbh if his idea of recruiting executive level staff is using the media to make their current position untenable and only at that point considering an approach to the current employers then he’s as fuckin useless as the Glazers, just in a different way. Outcome the same though, a waste of a huge amount of money which could’ve been easily avoided

I see Bergerac has let himself go a bit

I’d forget about Willock starting tbh. What Fish said about 3 at the back with wingbacks would make sense in this game. They’ve scored more from set pieces than anyone. Leave Tino upfield to break on them, that threat will make them think. But Howe wont significantly change anything

I once made a similar point to Delaney. He replied tbf to him saying that all Fleet Street journos were told not to print anything derogatory about Abramovich because corporate media were shit scared about the threat of legal proceedings against both them and the individual journos

Yeah… hes a fuckin ponce

After a few early misgivings I’d like to take this opportunity to convey to this esteemed forum that I am now fully on board with “the way of the stat”, all bar xG which is and will always be just counting

Andreas Brehme https://www.skysports.com/amp/football/news/11095/13076012/andreas-brehme-germany-legend-and-world-cup-winner-dies-aged-63

Well I was sort of only joking (did any of us know he was intimately involved in the womens’ coach carry on? I remember the case but not his involvement) What are you specifically pinning on him for this season?…

Fuckin hell man but still..

They made him walk though

So this is true, I checked, but I’ve no idea when it happened. Don’t know if he had that he was a NUFC player in his bio too as some have suggested, thats not there either if he had it 🤷🏻‍♂️

Can we employ his replacement whilst he’s tending the begonias?….

10 mill? “Au contraire mon ami” as some quite often strangely correct fat cockney bastard journo might put it…

Yeah that’s the cunt Have YOU spent the last TWO nights wandering round the Bigg Market?? 🫵

Matt Ritchie was released from the players hotel yesterday morning to pick this man up from the airport . We ran into them at the Riverside Brewing Co just by the swing bridge. This is his colleague in the AFCB back room team. His name cropped up last week when the Ashman story was doing the rounds So the lad who did most of the organising for this trip has a missus who works with Simon Francis missus. Mrs F has let it slip that both Francis and Hughes are working their notice and that Simon’s next job is “a long way north”…. So if this happens I think it will mean Eddie Howe has broken Dan Ashworth over the altar of the early career of Lewis Hall and possibly to a lesser extent Livramentimo. The “AFC Bournemouthisation” of NUFC will be complete. Tbh am not sure if the owners would allow this. In most cases the DoF recruits the coach but Eddie Howe was PiF’s first employee and clearly has a huge amount of clout with the owners. I think Ashman (rightly) is pissed off with this when Howe is clearly fucking Lewis Hall around. when Man Utd made eyes at him he didn’t think twice…which is ironic as I think he’s possibly going into a worse situation at Man Utd… “respected” coach in place but with added reporting to non football drug cheat boss Brailsford so I think things may be really bad behind the scenes at NUFCif he’s willing to move to that set up. The recruitment process for Ashman was done in a very corporate manner; the brief was given to an agency who identified candidates and it went from there . If they suddenly throw all that out window and let Howe bring his own team team I’d be very surprised tbh…but there are a lot of coincidences flying around at the moment

Congrats Dave

Youth are mortal in the Bodega, indulging in the long lost past time of throwing beer mats around. The locals are obviously looking on with affectionate tender contempt 😆

Beehive 👍

Quayside breakfast with squad member. No biggie. More interesting is who he was dining with

Goooood morning

Nah we’re not in there, we’re in the Leonardo next door

The Shell garage at Tot Hill services is clean out of red stripe